Opinion: Remember reading the paper?

Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by uejfiweun on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:36PM (#30226395)

For me, the problem isn't the paywalls, I can easily devtools my way around those. The problem is that the "accurate news" has gone completely off the deep end. Since around 2013, the traditional news sources, NPR included, have decided to adopt a highly race-based viewpoint, obsessively injecting race into every conceivable topic. Feel free to take a look at the charts, it's indisputable fact: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...

It wasn't always like this - I remember a time when the internet was a far more peaceful place, before all this crap started getting shoveled in peoples faces. The polarization since 2013, and Trump, is a direct result of this change in my view. Only god knows what the hell happened to these organizations, but until they hold back on the ridiculous race bait, the political divide will only get worse and worse.

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Re:Opinion: Remember reading the paper? by kelseyfrog on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:18PM (#30226824)

As long as the incentives to push racially(generally identity) framed politics remain the same, I don't expect the results to change. A media system financialized by ads will remain aligned to drive impressions. Proposals which rely on asking businesses and people to change behaviors without changing incentives are destined to fail. Until then, asking media to stop driving outrage is tantamount to asking them to stop making money.

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